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   Hello Rob Mccart!   
      
    RM> I have a PVR with my satellite TV system that has a 1 TB   
    RM> hard drive, and more can be added. I collect shows and   
    RM> movies on that I don't have time to watch to save for   
    RM> later when they are not running new shows as much.   
      
   But.. what happens when you unsubscribe from the sat service?     
   Do you have to return the PVR?  Or.. can you transfer your     
   recorded material to external media?   
      
    AA>> Ideally, I'd like to establish a networked laptop next to my   
    >> hi-fi setup and control the music that way.   
      
    RM> My Stereo is fairly old, so getting digital music into it   
    RM> is difficult unless I do it through the aforementioned CD/   
    RM> DVD player which is directly wired into it.   
      
   You could just attach a laptop or a small form factor desktop     
   that has the digital material on it.  Then control the play via     
   an app or the computer.   
      
      
    RM> My system was worth close to $2000 about 40 years ago, so   
    RM> you can probably triple that for today. It is still   
    RM> working well, mostly because I don't abuse it at high   
    RM> volume or use it a whole lot really.   
      
   My fine speakers developed the infamous foam rot around the     
   woofers after 12 yrs. But I found a place in Ottawa that     
   specialized in re-foaming existing woofers.  I just removed the     
   woofers and just sent those.   
      
      
    RM> I have (?) 60 or so vinyl records but mostly I only used   
    RM> them once to make a copy to cassette tape. I know most   
    RM> would argue the sound quality is not as good but I'm not   
    RM> such a music nut and I prefer to wear out a tape rather   
    RM> than the record. You can always make more tapes or disks   
    RM> with the right hardware.   
      
   It has been the same process for me above: copy LP to tape     
   inorder to preserve the LP.  I liked doing that especially when     
   I didn't particularly care for specific songs on an LP.  And..     
   I could build theme-based tapes too.  My collection reached     
   1200 LPs.   
      
      
    AA>> A cassette comeback I don't understand. The tapes are   
    AA>> fragile and wear out if the mechanics of the player is   
    AA>> not up to par.   
      
    RM> I have a number of them that are decades old but I don't   
    RM> use them all that much and I always bought high end tapes   
    RM> which last better.   
      
   I was particularly referring to the fragility of commercially     
   recorded cassettes.   
      
      
    RM> My dual-tape cassette deck was also a   
    RM> fairly high end unit worth over $350 when I got it back in   
    RM> days of yore..   B)   
      
   I thought I had purchased a fine dual-deck cassette player too     
   (upwards of $400 at the time) ..but one of the players     
   gradually started to fail; I'd be making a high-speed copy and     
   one of the recorder or player units would just stop.     
   Eventually, I couldn't use the deck for copying anymore.  And     
   one of the players would just stop after a few seconds of     
   "play" as well.  I still have it.  I just haven't operated it     
   in many years since the problem started.   
      
      
    RM> Record deal - Was approached to do a record with my own   
    RM> music but the producer went bankrupt just before things   
    RM> got going.   
      
   That's an interesting story.  What label was the producer     
   affiliated with? That would be a dream for many to be     
   "discovered" by a producer who thought their material was     
   worthy of promotion. In what genre would you class your music?   
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